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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:33:53 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
To:        mbac@mmap.nyct.net (Michael Bacarella)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Permissions on crontab.. 
Message-ID:  <nospam-3a652ec18b151ad@maxim.gbch.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010117001842.A28301@mmap.nyct.net>  of Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:18:42 EST
References:  <20010117001842.A28301@mmap.nyct.net> 

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Michael Bacarella wrote:

> Why is crontab suid root?

It has to run jobs as the correct user and must be able to
setuid accordingly.


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